Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iranian deputy Majlis speaker Mohammad-Reza Bahonar has hailed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for providing the Majlis with "friendly" guidance on clearing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominees for his cabinet.
Khamenei "recommended that the government should start working at the earliest and with fullest capacity at the time when the country is faced with domestic and international crises and issues," Fars News Agency quoted Bahonar as saying yesterday.
He asserted that Khamenei's message was simply "friendly" advice, saying, "This was not an order at all, but a consultative and friendly view which compelled the lawmakers to work more tolerantly with the government."
Source: Press TV, Iran, September 4, 2009
